The Human Rights Foundation (HRF), Freedom Now, and the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice have submitted a joint complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on behalf of detained Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire. On June...
Following the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, women and girls in Afghanistan have endured unprecedented levels of oppression and human rights violations. These abuses are enforced through formal decrees, institutionalized mechanisms, and a deeply embedded...
On this International Day of Political Prisoners, we stand together to affirm a simple truth: no one should be imprisoned for exercising their fundamental rights or for peacefully expressing their beliefs. Yet around the world, there are an estimated one million...
Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the detention of prominent Vietnamese journalist, writer and woman human rights defender Pham Doan Trang, an international coalition of non-governmental organisations is urging the global community to increase pressure on Vietnamese...
September 2025 – A coalition of human rights groups has written to the International Association of Judges (IAJ) ahead of its annual meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, calling for a strong resolution on the country’s lack of judicial independence and ongoing repression....
Free Buzurgmehr Yorov and All Others Held for Exercising their Human Rights (September 29, 2025) – Tajikistan’s authorities have wrongfully imprisoned a human rights lawyer for 10 years for exercising his human rights, 12 organizations said today. Buzurgmehr Yorov is...
